Presentation Resources

Presentations

Not everyone agrees on what makes a good presentation, but these links contain useful information (and there are definitely some things everyone agrees make a bad presentation…):

• Giving a good presentation
• Speaking effectively
• GSA pdf-document on "Making effective scientific presentations"
• Another GSA pdf-document (this one just two pages) on "No more lousy PowerPoint slides"
• Creating posters (practical, CPP-specific, advice)

Visualizations, graphics and images

• Subtleties of Color, first part of a series written by a NASA data visualization expert
• WTF visualizations, good illustrations on what NOT to do
• Five more things about color, written by exploration geophysicist from hydrocarbon industry

Scientific writing

• Give your article a good start: Titles for the Geosciences from the AGU Blogosphere